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Mobley’s teaching focuses on the history of the blues, jazz, Western art music, American music, and the development of popular music and culture. His current research examines the intersections of aesthetics and economics in the high arts and popular music.

As a composer and pianist he has had original works premiered and commissioned by members of the Dallas Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Voices of Change, El Cuarteto Latinoamericano, and various ensembles and performers throughout America, Asia and Europe.

Mobley has been the recipient of various distinguishing awards including an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the Arts, a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, and a software research associate’s award in the Machine Learning Department, an academic department within Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science.

Aaron Mobley is also an author and affiliated faculty with The American Culture and Ideas Initiative — an institution (at the Fred Fox School of Music in the University of Arizona) that celebrates the American intellectual experience, especially the rich legacy of high art, music, and dance, and the philosophical principles of the founding of America, political and economic, that promotes this flourishing culture. http://acii.arizona.edu

Music Courses at Berkeley City College

Music courses at Berkeley City College are available to students, Fall, Spring and Summer sessions, as traditional in-person lectures, hybrid courses, late start courses (8-week duration), or as 100% online.

All music courses are offered in a variety of formats and times to suit students’ schedules: mornings, afternoons, evenings, weekends, and/or 100% online.